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Support Your Local Yoga Teacher – An Interview with Laura DeFreitas

Nikki Chau — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:09:03 +0000

I first got to know Laura DeFreitas about a year and a half ago when she became an independent yoga teacher and started teaching at Taj Yoga, where I teach now, and where I was doing my yoga teacher training with Pacific Yoga at the time. Wanting to support her new business, and as a [...]

Support Your Local Yoga Teacher – An Interview with Diana Bonyhadi

Nikki Chau — Sat, 15 May 2010 07:04:38 +0000

I met up with Diana Bonyhadi, a fellow graduate of Pacific Yoga Teacher Training, at Grimaldi’s, a great local coffee shop in Issaquah, Washington. Her husband showed up for a short minute to give her a kiss and shared a cookie with us, and was off to work, leave me to chat with her.

What made [...]

When One Door Closes

Nikki Chau — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:56:19 +0000

Last week I told you guys that a climbing gym where I had been teaching Yoga for Climbers decided to discontinue the program. As someone who enjoys synthesizing the two together big time, I was bummed for not having a place to share that with my fellow climbers and yoga practitioners.

Two days later, an awesome [...]

Goal vs. Intention – Yoga Teacher to Yoga Teacher

Nikki Chau — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:41:46 +0000

This is another video in the New Yoga Teacher to New Yoga Teacher series, part of my work to support new yoga teachers. Here I talk about how to deal with both good days and bad days, and yes, they do happen. As they say about riding and laying down a motorcycle: it’s not a [...]

Interview with Yoga Teacher Dylan Noebels

Nikki Chau — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:00:37 +0000

Dylan Noebels is a fellow teacher at Taj Yoga. Last week, I sat down and interviewed him on how he became a yoga teacher, and his new Immersion series at the Taj, which starts Monday March 1st. You can reach him at dylann @ gmail.com

Also check out a short clip of the interview of me [...]

Yoga Teachers are Humans Too

Nikki Chau — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:47:08 +0000

This is a video I made after my friend Carlo, the photographer behind the awesome pictures used in this site, asked me to write about how yoga teachers are imperfect like the rest of humanity.

Nikki Chau Video Blog Yoga Update

Nikki Chau — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:38:37 +0000

Happy December!

Here’s some stuff I talk about in this vblog: + The Men Who Stare at Goats + 500-hr Teacher Training + Had an awesome Turkey gone Down Dog workshop!

Chanting the Gayatri Mantra

Nikki Chau — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:54:55 +0000

Here is a quick video of me chanting the Gayatri Mantra, something I did quite a bit after my bike accident.

You can follow along with the Sanskrit words here:

oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat savitur vareṇyaṃ bhargo devasya dhīmahi dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt